Environment Team Leader

Natural Resources Wales

Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
£45,367 - £50,877 pa
Full Time • Permanent
Closing on Wed, 6th Aug 2025

Environmental Management


The Pembrokeshire Environment Team Leader is an essential role in the delivery of environmental benefit and improvement on the ground in the Pembrokeshire area.  It is a busy role, overseeing a diverse team of Environment Officers, providing leadership across both what we do and how we do it. This includes developing locally prioritised work plans based on national targets for delivery, setting the team culture in line with the organisation’s values and behaviours, and ensuring high performance across the team for Health, Safety and Wellbeing.  

They are also responsible for overseeing the personal development of team members, ensuring they have the right tools, skills and motivation to deliver their role and develop for the future.  The Team Leader will also work across Wales with other Environment Team Leaders and technical groups on Wales wide issues as part of our service delivery approach.  

The Pembrokeshire Environment Team Leader has line management responsibility for ten officers, including a mix of Senior and Environment Officers, Project Officers and Technical Support.  The team deliver a wide range of work across project work, regulatory and enforcement activities and incident response across water quality, water resources, conservation, biodiversity and fisheries.  The teams work closely with other NRW teams and public authorities within the place and beyond. These teams make a tangible difference within their place and community.

The team sit within the South West Operations structure, alongside three other Environment Teams, Waste and Industry Regulation Teams and Environment Analysis and Assessment Teams, reporting to the South West Operations Manager.  The post holder will be working across Pembrokeshire and will need to be based within reasonable travel distance to attend in person meetings and events and to support incident response in the area.  

If you want a role that offers variety and challenge, and to be a part of an organisation that has the sustainable management of natural resources at the core of our purpose, we would love to hear from you.

As an organisation we support flexible working. You will be contracted to an NRW office within the place base / location above and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. Any regular face to face meetings or training will be planned in advance.

To make an informal enquiry about this role, please contact Caroline Drayton [email protected]

Interviews will be held on Microsoft Teams. 

Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.

What you will do

  • Developing and implementing local work plans to deliver our regulatory and SMNR aspirations. Engage and collaborate with relevant stakeholders.
  • Responsible for regulatory decisions at place level, ensuring adherence to the Regulators Code and our Regulatory Principles. 
  • Responsible for authorising regulatory and enforcement decisions within the team remit, including protected sites assents and consents. 
  • Ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of team members by implementing and monitoring safe working practices and risk assessments. 
  • Budgetary control of team spending. 
  • Would be expected to also lead a virtual technical team to support place based delivery. 
  • Play a senior role in a resilient NRW non-Flood Incident Management Service that follows NRW process.
  • Undertake health and safety duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post
  • Be committed to Natural Resources Wales Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy, together with an understanding of how it operates within the responsibilities of the post
  • Be committed to your own development  through the effective use of your personal development plan (known as Sgwrs).
  • Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.

Your qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills

In your application and interview you will be asked to demonstrate the following skills and experience using the STAR method.

1.    Experience of line management. (Essential) 
2.    Coaching and mentoring skills. (Essential) 
3.    Good understanding of the local environment and pressures relevant to the team remit. 
4.    Ability to communicate effectively with regulated business and the public, explaining issues and gaining support by influencing. 
5.    Extensive knowledge and experience of regulatory and enforcement processes.

Welsh language level requirements

  • Essential: Level B2 – Upper intermediate level (able to discuss work matters) 

Please note if you do not meet the A1 requirement i.e., ability to understand basic phrases and ability to pronounce Welsh names correctly, then NRW offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal requirements during the course of your employment with us.

Benefits 

This role will offer a range of benefits, including:

  • Civil Service Pension Scheme offering employer contributions of 28.97% (successful internal staff will remain in their current pension scheme)
  • 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days
  • generous leave entitlements for all your life needs
  • commitment to professional development
  • health and wellbeing benefits and support
  • weekly wellbeing hour to use as you choose

See full details for all the employee benefits you will receive.

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We’re passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities. We embrace equality of opportunity irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.  

We are committed to equal opportunities and we guarantee interviews for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

We want to attract and retain talented and highly skilled staff, so we make sure that our pay scales remain competitive. We advertise the full pay scale on our job descriptions. Appointed candidates start at the first point of the pay scale and annual increments are paid each year.

We want our staff to grow professionally and personally. From leadership development to access to further and higher education courses, our staff have opportunities to expand their knowledge on variety of topics, stay current in their field and continue to learn as their career progresses.  

We are a Bilingual organisation which complies with the Welsh Language Standards.  Welsh language skills are considered an asset to NRW, and we encourage and support staff to learn, develop and use their Welsh language skills.

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About Natural Resources Wales

Natural Resources Wales is the largest Welsh Government Sponsored Body - employing 1,900 staff across Wales with a budget of £180 million. We were formed in April 2013, largely taking over the functions of the Countryside Council for Wales, Forestry Commission Wales and the Environment Agency in Wales, as well as certain Welsh Government functions. We receive a Remit Letter at the start of each financial year setting out what the Welsh Government wants us to achieve during that year.

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